armor-clad

American  

[ahr-mer-klad] / ˈɑr mərˌklæd /

adjective

1. covered with armor.

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Etymology

Origin of armor-clad

First recorded in 1860–65; armor + clad ¹

Example Sentences

If I were a hulking, armor-clad hero, the tower would have crumbled like dry bread.

From Literature

As the group approached the Louvre, participants were ambushed by phalanxes of armor-clad riot officers who had hidden near the colonnades of the nearby Comédie Française.

From New York Times

But Mr. Mélenchon quickly disappeared after a brief face-off with lines of armor-clad riot police officers blocking the bridge.

From New York Times

Russell Engelman, a paleontologist pursuing his Ph.D. at Case Western Reserve University, recently compared the proportions of Dunkleosteus’s armor-clad head to the skull sizes of hundreds of living and fossil fish.

From New York Times

And they have turned Mr. Reddé into a leading character of French demonstrations, a kind of “Where’s Waldo?” who invariably appears alongside unionists blowing foghorns and battalions of armor-clad riot police.

From New York Times